If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

“Those who contemplate never escape the doubt.”

— Henning Mankell

I have actually seen people contemplate their navels

— John Heilpern

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

— Anonymous

Did you ever notice when you contemplate suicide, the hardest things to remember are why you've come this far to begin with? me either.

— Anonymous

So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.

— William Shakespeare

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially…

— Paul Di Filippo

“The value of anything is only relative in the moment of contemplating it.”

— Steven Redhead

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

— Beryl Markham

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view,…

— John Herschel

Like most musicians, Im good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to…

— Tony Levin

“Contemplate for a moment hiking up a wild and rugged mountain. The mountain itself is a challenge, as well as the experience of beauty…

— Steve Sanchez

Contemplate nature with the eyes of the soul

— Soljeannette Acevedo

Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond…

— Blaise Pascal

“It was not easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.”

— Mahatma Gandhi